
Healthful Living and the Third Angel's Message
LESSON 4
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Tuesday
October 20
Part 3
"Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in
PROPHECY OF whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon
CHRIST'S Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles."
PERSEVERANCE
"He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set
judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His
law."
"The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, He shall
stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry, yea,
Isa. 42:1, 4, 13
roar; He shall prevail against His enemies."
The courage and perseverance of Jesus Christ is needed
more perhaps in the conquest of bad physical habits than in
any of the wrestlings of the soul with evil. Often the health
reform is attended with difficulties, not only in living it, but
also in teaching it to the world.
A great deal of moral courage is required to change a life-
time of bad habits—for example, to abandon smoking and the
use of liquor or to overcome the viselike grip of heroin and
certain other drugs. To conquer marijuana and LSD takes
moral stamina. Even to abandon the use of tea and coffee is
for some a deadly struggle.
In some mission lands the chewing of betel nut has a slavish
hold upon the people. Some have never heard of, or choose to
ignore, God's instruction regarding unclean flesh foods (Deut.
14:3-19) and feast upon such things as swine's flesh, lobster,
and crab. Christ has power to break the hold of vice upon the
human organism. The challenge to part company with sin is a
challenge to courage and faith.
Some have trouble adopting the lactovegetarian diet, feel-
ing faintness and a loss of strength when meat is abandoned.
Read
Counsels on Diet and Foods,
page 482, 483, 394, 395. This
feeling disappears with perseverance.
For all of the conflicts of mind and spirit over the body
there is the example and help of Jesus, the world's best re-
former, to encourage us. He never failed nor did He become
discouraged. He persevered and won the victory. So may we.
What figure of speech is used to represent the vic-
torious conquest of our Lord?
THINK IT THROUGH
Since the conquest of perverted appetite is a possibil-
ity, what about the conquest of every other sin?
"Those who proclaim the message
should teach health reform also. It is
a subject that we must understand, in
order to be prepared for the events
that are close upon us, and it should
have a prominent place. Satan and his
agents are seeking to hinder this work
of reform, and will do all they can to
perplex and burden those who heartily
engage in it. Yet none should be dis-
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couraged at this, or cease their efforts
because of it. The prophet Isaiah speaks
thus of one characteristic of Christ, 'He
shall not fail nor be discouraged, till
He have set judgment in the earth.'
Then let not His followers talk of failure
or discouragement, but remember the
price paid to rescue man that he might
not perish, but have eternal life."—
"Counsels on Diet and Foods," page 77.